TRIVIA GAMES

mircteryx

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banker21

mircteryx 2-11-2017 09:16 PM
It's time to announce the winner.

Wednesday 1 Nov 2017

Participant to TRIVIA GAMES-Wednesday 1 Nov 2017

vinodnamdeo

Participant to TRIVIA GAMES-Tuesday 31 Oct 2017"

Skaygee93

mircteryx 2-11-2017 09:16 PM
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Wednesday 1 Nov 2017

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance. Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the previous whaling voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. The novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, but during the 20th century, its reputation as a Great American Novel was established. William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written it himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world", and "the greatest book of the sea ever written"."Call me Ishmael" is among world literature's most famous opening sentences.

Ishmael, the narrator, announces his intent to ship aboard a whaling vessel. He has made several voyages as a sailor but none as a whaler. He travels to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he stays in a whalers’ inn. Since the inn is rather full, he has to share a bed with a harpooner from the South Pacific named Queequeg. At first repulsed by Queequeg’s strange habits and shocking appearance (Queequeg is covered with tattoos), Ishmael eventually comes to appreciate the man’s generosity and kind spirit, and the two decide to seek work on a whaling vessel together. They take a ferry to Nantucket, the traditional capital of the whaling industry. There they secure berths on the Pequod, a savage-looking ship adorned with the bones and teeth of sperm whales. Peleg and Bildad, the Pequod’s Quaker owners, drive a hard bargain in terms of salary. They also mention the ship’s mysterious captain, Ahab, who is still recovering from losing his leg in an encounter with a sperm whale on his last voyage.

The Pequod leaves Nantucket on a cold Christmas Day with a crew made up of men from many different countries and races. Soon the ship is in warmer waters, and Ahab makes his first appearance on deck, balancing gingerly on his false leg, which is made from a sperm whale’s jaw. He announces his desire to pursue and kill Moby Dick, the legendary great white whale who took his leg, because he sees this whale as the embodiment of evil. Ahab nails a gold doubloon to the mast and declares that it will be the prize for the first man to sight the whale. As the Pequod sails toward the southern tip of Africa, whales are sighted and unsuccessfully hunted. During the hunt, a group of men, none of whom anyone on the ship’s crew has seen before on the voyage, emerges from the hold. The men’s leader is an exotic-looking man named Fedallah. These men constitute Ahab’s private harpoon crew, smuggled aboard in defiance of Bildad and Peleg. Ahab hopes that their skills and Fedallah’s prophetic abilities will help him in his hunt for Moby Dick.
The Pequod rounds Africa and enters the Indian Ocean. A few whales are successfully caught and processed for their oil. From time to time, the ship encounters other whaling vessels. Ahab always demands information about Moby Dick from their captains. One of the ships, the Jeroboam, carries Gabriel, a crazed prophet who predicts doom for anyone who threatens Moby Dick. His predictions seem to carry some weight, as those aboard his ship who have hunted the whale have met disaster. While trying to drain the oil from the head of a captured sperm whale, Tashtego, one of the Pequod’s harpooners, falls into the whale’s voluminous head, which then rips free of the ship and begins to sink. Queequeg saves Tashtego by diving into the ocean and cutting into the slowly sinking head.
During another whale hunt, Pip, the Pequod’s black cabin boy, jumps from a whaleboat and is left behind in the middle of the ocean. He goes insane as the result of the experience and becomes a crazy but prophetic jester for the ship. Soon after, the Pequod meets the Samuel Enderby, a whaling ship whose skipper, Captain Boomer, has lost an arm in an encounter with Moby Dick. The two captains discuss the whale; Boomer, happy simply to have survived his encounter, cannot understand Ahab’s lust for vengeance. Not long after, Queequeg falls ill and has the ship’s carpenter make him a coffin in anticipation of his death. He recovers, however, and the coffin eventually becomes the Pequod’s replacement life buoy.
Ahab orders a harpoon forged in the expectation that he will soon encounter Moby Dick. He baptizes the harpoon with the blood of the Pequod’s three harpooners. The Pequod kills several more whales. Issuing a prophecy about Ahab’s death, Fedallah declares that Ahab will first see two hearses, the second of which will be made only from American wood, and that he will be killed by hemp rope. Ahab interprets these words to mean that he will not die at sea, where there are no hearses and no hangings. A typhoon hits the Pequod, illuminating it with electrical fire. Ahab takes this occurrence as a sign of imminent confrontation and success, but Starbuck, the ship’s first mate, takes it as a bad omen and considers killing Ahab to end the mad quest. After the storm ends, one of the sailors falls from the ship’s masthead and drowns—a grim foreshadowing of what lies ahead.
Ahab’s fervent desire to find and destroy Moby Dick continues to intensify, and the mad Pip is now his constant companion. The Pequod approaches the equator, where Ahab expects to find the great whale. The ship encounters two more whaling ships, the Rachel and the Delight, both of which have recently had fatal encounters with the whale. Ahab finally sights Moby Dick. The harpoon boats are launched, and Moby Dick attacks Ahab’s harpoon boat, destroying it. The next day, Moby Dick is sighted again, and the boats are lowered once more. The whale is harpooned, but Moby Dick again attacks Ahab’s boat. Fedallah, trapped in the harpoon line, is dragged overboard to his death. Starbuck must maneuver the Pequod between Ahab and the angry whale.

On the third day, the boats are once again sent after Moby Dick, who once again attacks them. The men can see Fedallah’s corpse lashed to the whale by the harpoon line. Moby Dick rams the Pequod and sinks it. Ahab is then caught in a harpoon line and hurled out of his harpoon boat to his death. All of the remaining whaleboats and men are caught in the vortex created by the sinking Pequod and pulled under to their deaths. Ishmael, who was thrown from a boat at the beginning of the chase, was far enough away to escape the whirlpool, and he alone survives. He floats atop Queequeg’s coffin, which popped back up from the wreck, until he is picked up by the Rachel, which is still searching for the crewmen lost in her earlier encounter with Moby Dick.

mircteryx

Tuesday 7 Nov 2017

1. The letters on the following words have been mixed up.They are related to movies.The first letter of each word is given as a clue.


2. Determine the minimum number of moves needed to move from the configuration in fig. A to the configuration in fig. B.Follow this rules:
-balls may move out of the basket only upward
-you may not place more than three balls in one basket
-you may move only one ball at a time.


3. Can you put back together the ten three-part words that have been split and spread across the grid?Each part can be used only once, and the splits may not necessarly be the part splits you find in the distionary.
HINT: The theme is emotions and feelings



Good luck !

mircteryx

It's time to announce the winner.

Tuesday 7 Nov 2017
Answers:
1. SHOOTING; CAMERA; ACTRESS; CASTING
2. You need at least four moves to go from A to B:
• ball 1 in basket 1
• ball 2 in basket 2
• ball 1 in basket 3
• ball 5 in basket 3
3. euphoria, jealousy, modesty, bravery, courage, affection, pleasure, desire, seduction, patience


The winner is visuarchie  

Other participant:
-vinodnamdeo


visuarchie please write something about " CASTING (performing arts) " to get reward.You can post direct on the thread (this time only).

vinodnamdeo please write the following:" Participant to TRIVIA GAMES-Tuesday 7Nov 2017" to get reward as participant.You can post direct on the thread (this time only).

mircteryx

Wednesday 8 Nov 2017

1. Take a careful look at the six elements below and try to determine which ones are not part of the larger figure.Beware, some elements may just have been turned around.

2. Take a careful look at the location of the seven objects in this landscape.


The image below shows the same landscape as seen from above.Determine where you would stand in the scenery to view the landscape as it appears in the image above.

3. Find the odd one in this series.


Good luck !

visuarchie

Casting (performing arts)
In the performing arts industry, a casting (or casting call) is a pre-productionprocess for selecting a certain type of actor, singer or dancer for a particular role or part in a script involving a dramatic production meant for an audience.


Casting process

The casting process involves a series of auditions before a casting panel, composed of individuals such as the producer, director and/or choreographer. In the early stages of the process, performers often may present prepared audition pieces such as monologues or songs. These audition pieces are usually video taped, attached with resumes, and head shots and then shared with producers, directors and studio representatives. Later stages may involve groups of actors attempting material from the work under consideration in various combinations; the casting director considers both the talent of the individual actors and the chemistry of their combination.

Depending on the prestige of the role, casting calls may go out to the public at large (typical for community theater), to professional and semi-professional local actors (for supporting roles in theater and film) or to specifically selected actors (for leading roles, especially in films). In the production of film and television, a similar process is followed.

Character breakdowns, part of the script breakdown, are often provided to auditioners, and provide a brief summary of a character (age, gender, race or ethnicity, personality, situations they may be involved in).

An actor may go through several casting calls before receiving a part.

Independent Casting Studios are often used for casting calls so that the castings can take place in various locations. Dewar Studios in Great Titchfield Street in central London is a good example of the independent casting studios that provide facilities to casting directors.

Casting director
For some major productions, the process of selecting actors for sometimes hundreds of parts may often require specialized staff. While the last word remains with the people in charge, artistic and production, a casting director or "CD" (and sometimes the casting associate) is in charge of most of the daily work involved in this process during pre-production. A casting director is sometimes assisted by a casting associate; productions with large numbers of extras may have their own extras casting director.
The "CD" remains as a liaison between director, actors and their agents/managers and the studio/network to get the characters in the script cast.
At least in the early stages and for extras, casting may be decentralized geographically, often in conjunction with actual shooting planned in different locations. Another reason may be tapping into each home market in the case of an international co-production. However, for the top parts, the choice of one or more beautiful people whose presence is of enormous commercial importance, may rather follow strictly personal channels, e.g. direct contact with the director.

vinodnamdeo

Participant to TRIVIA GAMES-Tuesday 7Nov 2017

mircteryx

It's time to announce the winner.

Wednesday 8 Nov 2017
Answers:
1. All squares are used in the combined image.
2. The landscape is seen from point E.
3. Line 4, fifth from the left


The winner is visuarchie  

Other participant:
-vinodnamdeo


visuarchie please write something about " PUZZLE" to get reward.You can post direct on the thread (this time only).

vinodnamdeo please write the following:" Participant to TRIVIA GAMES-Wednesday 8 Nov 2017" to get reward as participant.You can post direct on the thread (this time only)